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Henry Silva, an actor who became well-known in the 1950s and early 1960s for portraying smooth-faced, rough-edged heavies in Hollywood dramas, passed away on September 14 in Los Angeles.

He was best known for his roles as a North Korean agent in “The Manchurian Candidate” and a drug dealer named “Mother” in “A Hatful of Rain.” He was 95.

Scott Silva, his son, confirmed the passing but did not immediately cite a cause.

With more than 130 credits across both film and television over the course of a career spanning five decades, Mr. Silva emerged as one of Hollywood’s busiest character actors. He was of Puerto Rican descent, although he once remarked that his features allowed for “vast variety.”

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With Mary Ramus, Cindy Conroy (a former Miss Canada), and Ruth Earl, with whom he had two daughters, Mr. Silva was married but they all divorced. His sons, Scott and Michael Silva, both of Los Angeles, are among the survivors.

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Henry Silva is an American actor who has a net worth of $5 million.

In 1963, he told the Los Angeles Times,

“I could play nearly everything but a Swede—and I’m working on that.”
Mr. Silva was unusually attractive, and his poker face, close-set eyes, blade-like cheekbones, and sinuous body could suggest spooky threat or rugged masculinity.

He made his Broadway debut in 1955 as the dapper but evil drug seller in “A Hatful of Rain,” a role he later played on the big screen in 1957.
Mr. Silva played a communist operative in the 1962 film “The Manchurian Candidate,” which was adapted from Richard Condon’s book about Cold War paranoia. He assumes the role of a manservant for Laurence Harvey, a Korean War veteran from the United States who has been coerced by communists into killing a presidential contender in the United States.

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The Manchurian Candidate, which also features Frank Sinatra, had a disastrous opening weekend but is now recognized as a tense classic. When the movie was rereleased in 1988, critic Peter Travers stated in People magazine that Mr. Silva achieves “a high in sleazy villainy that hasn’t been matched since.”

Other notable early roles for Mr. Silva include “Viva Zapata!” (1952), in which he plays a Mexican peasant who challenges Marlon Brando’s revolutionary lead; “The Bravados” (1958), in which he plays an American Indian who is a member of a gang of murderous outlaws; and “Green Mansions” (1959), in which he plays the bad-seed son of a Venezuelan tribal chief.
In a change of pace, Mr. Silva portrayed one of the stepbrothers in the Jerry Lewis comedy “Cinderfella” and appeared in “Ocean’s Eleven” as a member of Sinatra’s “Rat Pack” group of casino robbers (both 1960).

Mr. Silva claimed to have great admiration for Humphrey Bogart and John Garfield and a desire to emulate their style of tough-guy, street-smart leading men. His opportunity came with “Johnny Cool” (1963). His portrayal of a Sicilian-born criminal who conceals his murderous tendencies beneath a thin elegant veneer did not at first appeal to critics or viewers.

But over time, “Johnny Cool” attracted a devoted fan base. Director Jim Jarmusch, who played Mr. Silva as a crime boss obsessed with cartoons in “Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai,” was one of its devotees (1999). Henry’s face is almost like a mask, but the things that do flicker over it can be really interesting, Jarmusch said in an interview with the Chicago Tribune.
His leading-man opportunities in Hollywood were few, so Mr. Silva took a lengthy break to work in Europe. There, he played the Japanese detective hero in “The Return of Mr. Moto” (1965) and was given leading roles in spaghetti westerns like “The Hills Run Red” (1966) and action movies like “Assassination” (1967) and “The Boss” (1973).

He revealed to the Chicago Sun-Times that organized crime figures and other criminals frequently praised his efforts. ‘My God, where did you learn how to play us,’ they exclaim. “I lived with “us,” I say.” I was raised in New York with “us.” I once knew the men in charge of the prostitution rings and the entire neighborhood. I once polished their shoes. They would say, “Kid, come on.” Please shine my shoes for me. If you [make a mistake], I’ll bust your head.
On September 23, 1926, Mr. Silva, a Puerto Rican couple’s son, was born in Brooklyn and raised in Spanish Harlem. When his father abandoned the family, he was only approximately six months old. His mother didn’t read or write. Mr. Silva was a shy student who frequently experienced fear in school since, until the age of 8, he had trouble understanding English.
He found much-needed solace in movies, especially the Mickey Rooney-starring “Andy Hardy” movies about an all-American teen. According to Mr. Silva, “it was about families—something I never had.” In his mid-teens, he dropped out of school and moved out, working odd jobs like longshoreman and dishwasher to save money for acting school.
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He remembered to the Tribune that he “spent six years knocking on doors and hearing ‘No’ before I obtained a job as an extra on a television show for $5.”

He signed up for the Actors Studio workshop, where the terrifying “A Hatful of Rain” by Michael V. Gazzo developed.

One of the earliest major drug addiction dramas, it followed a young, married war veteran (Ben Gazzara) who was trying to kick his heroin habit.

On television, Mr. Silva played a vicious mafia enforcer in the 1960s crime drama “The Untouchables.” He also established himself as a mainstay of action movies from the 1980s and 1990s, such as “Above the Law” with Steven Seagal and “Dick Tracy” (playing the casino owner Influence), and he appeared in the all-star remake of “Ocean’s Eleven” from director Steven Soderbergh in 2001 as a boxing spectator.

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